I just played The Breech on tribble. It involves taking out a HUGE Voth Fortress Ship.

Part 1 plays very much like Sisko using the Mirror-Defiant to attack Mirror-Worf's huge ship in Shattered Mirror. Kinetic Cutting Beam is a very useful for taking out hard points.

Parts 2-5 play out inside the interior of the Fortress Ship. Initially, the ship's layout can be a little confusing. But after a couple of play-throughs, you will know where to go. Big ships with slow turn rates may have some difficulty flying around inside the Fortress Ship. Voth cruiser's Barrier Field are a nuisance. Flanking attacks on them is the key, which means either a high speed, fast turn rate cannon escort or a ship with 360 degrees weapon coverage.

Notes for Part 4: Primary Power Core has 2 rotating shield that makes it immune to damage. Cannon users are screwed since you'll have to repeatedly move and turn the ship to get your cannons in the right position to fire. Broadsiders would probably have a much easier time by moving in big circle around the power core.

I seem to have developed a knack for achieving 1st place in Crystalline Entity elite while playing my Gorn in a fleet Tor'kaht. Unfortunately I have also developed a propensity for neglecting to pick up the box of marks afterward. :/

The new feature episode Sphere of Influence was very good. Good story, Michael Dorn, some great environment design. Quite enjoyed it. And I loved the special bridge officer powers.

Played it through twice with my Fed main to get both special items. The two piece set bonus (warp core and 360 degree antiproton array) boost antiproton damage, and as I'm using antiproton on my HEC, figured I'd try it out.

Not so sure about the carrier yet. Don't have space on that character to open the box. But I am leveling a Klingon science officer that might make use of it.

I still suck at this game. lol Too much starship combat for me. Wish it was mostly away team stuff, I'd be playing it every day. But nooooo, I get stuck on a starship part and don't touch it for almost a year. lol

I still suck at this game. lol Too much starship combat for me. Wish it was mostly away team stuff, I'd be playing it every day. But nooooo, I get stuck on a starship part and don't touch it for almost a year. lol

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Try the Featured Episodes which Cryptic reruns right now. They still have space combat but are very ground intensive and have generally better stories than leveling content.

Otherwise check out Foundry missions. Some players focus a lot more on ground because it allows more diveser story telling than space.

Finished the feature episode "spheres of influence". Seemed very familiar to the Stargate Universe pilot episode. Both feature going through a gate that is overloading unto an unknown strange and deserted alien ship far away.

Also hate when they put two set pieces in the same mission, forcing you to replay the one mission for both pieces. Worse when you're trying to equip multiple toons, so are looking at 4, 6, 8, or more replays. Once per toon would have been fine, save the next set piece for the follow-on mission. A couple other FEs have done this, which sucks. Ok to put a ground and space piece in the same mission, as you could be aiming for either, but putting two space pieces in the same mission is lazy/boring.

Yeah, i don't care about the ship, just want the console and beam. Good for shuttles, but thinking I may have it as a rear weapon on my regular ship in place of a turret. I'm running AP anyway, so blends in, and by doing that and the console, there's a 10% AP boost as well, which adds to my front weapons...

Anybody playing right now want to help me beat those damn Naussicans in War is Good for Business? Still can't beat the buggers, and I'm getting fed up to the point where I'm about to go into STO hibernation for another year.